Re: Subdomain mapping for SSL

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 42960
interpreted = N
texte = Thanks for the help John...Would I still have to enable SSL on the whole domain though? Sorry to ask, it's just I've managed to get myself in a bit of a muddle over this. I've never had to go about setting up SSL before and I panicked when I set it up on our domain and it stopped working, it just started to timeout whenever I tried to access it.Alanon 28/8/02 2:36 pm, John Peacock at jpeacock@rowman.com wrote:> Alan White wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was wondering if anyone was familiar with mapping VirtualHosts? I am >> currently trying to set up a sub domain with SSL for the checkout of our >> site. In order to use the WebCatalog engine I thought it was necessary for >> the secure area of the site to be under the main domain where the engine is >> installed. I tried setting up our domain with SSL but it was not possible >> to access the site without using https://, it is for this reason I wanted to >> try and set up the sub domain and map it to a folder within the main domain. > > Unless you specifically forbid it, WebCat is available on all VirtualHosts. > Put > differently, you can decide to only enable it for specific sites by placing > the > appropriate Addhandler command in that section, but by default > WC > is enabled for all sites. > > You should also not need to play with VirtualHost's at all; that is truly > needed > only for multiple domains, not subdomains. You _can_ do it that way, but you > are probably better off switching to SSL from your templates (note you may > have > to use a full URL) and add an ACL on the directory such that it requires SSL. > Assuming you use mod_ssl, this should do what you want: > > > SSLRequireSSL > > > HTH > > HTH > > John ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Subdomain mapping for SSL (John Peacock 2002)
  2. Re: Subdomain mapping for SSL (Alan White 2002)
  3. Re: Subdomain mapping for SSL (John Peacock 2002)
  4. Subdomain mapping for SSL (Alan White 2002)
Thanks for the help John...Would I still have to enable SSL on the whole domain though? Sorry to ask, it's just I've managed to get myself in a bit of a muddle over this. I've never had to go about setting up SSL before and I panicked when I set it up on our domain and it stopped working, it just started to timeout whenever I tried to access it.Alanon 28/8/02 2:36 pm, John Peacock at jpeacock@rowman.com wrote:> Alan White wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was wondering if anyone was familiar with mapping VirtualHosts? I am >> currently trying to set up a sub domain with SSL for the checkout of our >> site. In order to use the WebCatalog engine I thought it was necessary for >> the secure area of the site to be under the main domain where the engine is >> installed. I tried setting up our domain with SSL but it was not possible >> to access the site without using https://, it is for this reason I wanted to >> try and set up the sub domain and map it to a folder within the main domain. > > Unless you specifically forbid it, WebCat is available on all VirtualHosts. > Put > differently, you can decide to only enable it for specific sites by placing > the > appropriate Addhandler command in that section, but by default > WC > is enabled for all sites. > > You should also not need to play with VirtualHost's at all; that is truly > needed > only for multiple domains, not subdomains. You _can_ do it that way, but you > are probably better off switching to SSL from your templates (note you may > have > to use a full URL) and add an ACL on the directory such that it requires SSL. > Assuming you use mod_ssl, this should do what you want: > > > SSLRequireSSL > > > HTH > > HTH > > John ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Alan White

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